Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.